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Oni & Dawn's Hana Ikuta Launches New Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The September issue of Kadokawa's Comic Cune magazine revealed on Monday that Hana Ikuta will launch a new manga titled Noraware Yūsha to Tokitai Seijo (The Cursed Hero and the Saint Who Wants to Free Him) in the magazine's next issue on August 27.
📢来月からコミックキューンにて新連載始めます。【呪われ勇者と解きたい聖女】をよろしくお願いします。📢世界のすみっこで新婚生活を送ってもらう話になりそうです。 pic.twitter.com/CRJOoWzv4g
— いくたはな (@suitondiary) July 28, 2026
The fantasy romance manga centers on the hero Mikage. After dispatching the dark lord, he is left with the parting curse of petrification. Having accepted that he will slowly die due to the curse, he returns with resignation to Crane, the saint he has won as a wife after his victory. Crane has a curiosity for curses, and perhaps that and her straightforward nature will open up Mikage's closed heart.
Ikuta debuted as a manga creator in 2017 and is also known for What Is Normal Love? and The Shadow and the Flower. Tokyopop will release The Shadow and the Flower in English, and will also release What Is Normal Love? in English starting in November.
Manga Mavericks Books licensed Ikuta's Oni & Dawn: Bakumatsu High School Girls (Bakumatsu Joshi Kōsei: Oni to Yoake) manga, and will release the first volume in October. The manga is a three-volume series that Two Virgins published in Japan in 2022-2024.
Sources: Comic Cune September issue, Hana Ikuta's X/Twitter account
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